The thread about cutting up scraps made me think about what is and is not working in my own stash and I've summed it up as follows:
Current successes:
- a set of 16 shoebox-like totes for small scraps (anything from 1" squares to partial jelly roll strips, random precuts and up to about a fat quarter), organized mostly by colour
- a few totes/underbed boxes organized by theme or fabric type: I Spy, Christmas, batiks
- a couple of larger totes - one for UFOs and one for bundles/kits of fabric that are mostly attached to specific ideas/plans
Not so successful:
- general volume of fabric is kind of out of control (sigh) and the fact that my stash is not always the easiest to access means that a large mess usually results from any fabric pull which adds to the chaos
- random pieces larger than a fat quarter and smaller than a yard or two - I've tried to organize them into larger totes by colour but because these fabric pieces really are so random both in terms of style and size, the boxes are hard to search through for specific needs and tend to get messed up pretty quickly. Sadly, I don't have enough room to have more boxes so that I can be more selective about what goes into each one. (This is also sort of successful because I think if I had more room I'd be collecting more fabric!)
My current plan:
Make more quilts to make more room in totes :-) Easy peasy, right? :-D